Lazy Bill Lucas

b. William Lucas, 29 Might 1918, Wynne, Arkansas, USA. Expenses Lucas’ first device was a acoustic guitar, financed by offering a pig, but he actually needed a piano. Living on the plantation with five siblings it appeared like a fantasy when his dad in fact bought him one in 1932. Nevertheless, when the family members shifted to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the piano was left out. Lazy Bill got no real connection with the blues until he fulfilled Big Joe Williams in St. Louis in 1940. Transformed, he shifted to Chicago in 1941 and converted back again to the piano after playing acoustic guitar to get lots of the popular artists of your day. He was among Little Hudson’s Crimson Devils and documented with his personal Blue Rhythms for the opportunity label in 1954. Encountering difficulties due, partly, to the anxious condition that got rendered him practically blind since years as a child, he shifted to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1964 where he continuing to play, showing up at celebrations and documenting for his personal Sluggish label in 1970 and later on for the Philo label.